PAFF 2018 opens its doors to a film by Alfons Adetuyi, “Love Jacked” on opening night. A warm family comedy centered around Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions and her father Ed, who wants a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya, asserting her independence, decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé.

On Feb. 1, USCIS and the Department of State implemented new procedures to ensure that all individuals admitted as refugees receive similar, thorough vetting – whether they are principal refugees, accompanying family members, or following-to-join refugees.

The most highly anticipated show, The 2018 NAMM, National Association of Music Merchants Show returned to the newly expanded Anaheim Convention Center from January 25-28, 2018. This incredible event featured a plethora of musical acts spanning a variety of genres, ages and compositions.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the agency will schedule asylum interviews for recent applications ahead of older filings, in an attempt to stem the growth of the agency’s asylum backlog.

In an unprecedented move on Thursday just when DACA recipients and politicians were still digesting the possibility for a solution to the fate of over 700,000 DACA recipients, President Donald Trump threw another curve ball in the mix offering a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children.

The African Communities Public Health Coalition joined the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) rally on January 13, 208. The TPS Coalition in Los Angeles that was organized and led by CARECEN march to Metropolitan Detention Center to protect a program that is critical to California’s growing South American and African immigrant communities from elimination.

On January 27, 2018, USA for IOM, the nonprofit partner of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will join the “March Against Slavery in Libya and Beyond” in Los Angeles, California. The march organized by activists Sahndra Fon Dufe and Angelique Mendes aims to raise awareness for migrants being abused and exploited in Libya and other countries around the world.

On Wednesday January 24, 2018 while speaking about the fate of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US by their families as children President Trump echoed some much needed solace to DACA recipients. For the first time since the government shutdown President Donald Trump explicitly offered the possibility of a pathway to citizenship for the Dreamers as they are known.

The Los Angeles Kingdom Day Parade is incontestably the largest and most venerated celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’ s birthday in the United States. Spanning 33 years of honoring his life and vision, this year’s festivities began with the traditional breakfast where special recognition is given to community leaders, who have exemplified the spirit of Dr. King.

I have been asked why I have not applied for citizenship? It would be a lot cheaper. However there is only one incentive and that is to vote. After seeing that the winner is not based on a total tally of votes it looks rigged to me and my vote would not count.